Melungeons to be focus at meeting

The next meeting of the Alisa Chapter of Hadassah will be held at 7:15 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Jewish Center of Concordia in the Stop & Shop Shopping Center, Perrineville Road.

Guest speaker Dr. Elizabeth Hirschman, a professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, will offer a program on the Melungeons, a group of people whose origins are believed to be in Spain and who arrived on the Virginia shores in the 15th century, ultimately settling in Appalachia. Hirschman will share her own personal discovery as a result of her research and experiences with the Melungeons.